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In literature, the term "based" is frequently employed to signal the foundational or underlying basis upon which ideas, arguments, narratives, or structures are built. Authors use it to indicate that a particular element is grounded in data, theory, tradition, or experience. For example, Burgess and Park use "based" to denote that certain chapters are constructed on specific data sets or familial ties (e.g., [1] and [2]), while in creative writing and dramatic contexts, as seen in Shakespearean tragedy, the phrase underscores plots constructed on intrigue ([3]). Philosophical works, such as Kant’s, similarly use "based" to express the derivation of arguments from intuition or reason ([4], [5]), and even in more casual or technical texts, "based" conveys reliance on specific methods or origins—ranging from the technical basis of a network ([6]) to the inspiration behind literary creation ([7]). Thus, in its versatile usage across literature, "based" consistently emphasizes that what follows is built on a particular set of foundations, whether factual, theoretical, or artistic.
  1. Ethnographic Appendices, being the data upon which the caste chapter of the report is based.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  2. Studies of primitive peoples indicate that early social organizations were based upon ties of kinship and primary group contacts.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  3. The method suits a plot based on intrigue.
    — from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley
  4. Only an apodeictic proof, based upon intuition, can be termed a demonstration.
    — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  5. But these considerations of what is desirable in relation to our whole state, that is, is in the end good and useful, are based entirely upon reason.
    — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  6. EUNET is a UUCP based network in Europe.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  7. The Signet Classic text is based on the first edition, published by John Murray, London, in 1818—the year following Miss Austen's death.
    — from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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